Welcome to the COOKIES POLICY of University of Vigo, where we will explain in clear and simple language all the necessary details so that you can have control over them based on your personal decisions.
WHAT ARE COOKIES AND WHAT DO WE USE THEM FOR?
A cookie is a small information file that is stored on your computer, smartphone or tablet every time you visit our website.
In principle, a cookie is harmless: it does not contain viruses, trojans, worms, etc. that could damage your terminal, but it does have a certain impact on your right to the protection of your personal data, as it collects certain information concerning you (browsing habits, identity, preferences, etc.).
That is why, based on the provisions of the applicable regulations (LSSI and current personal data protection regulations), the activation of certain types of cookies will require your prior authorisation.
Before doing so, we will give you some additional information that will help you to make a better decision in this regard:
1. Cookies can be of various types depending on their purpose:
- Technical cookies are necessary for our website to function, they do not require your permission and are the only ones we have enabled by default.
- The other cookies are used to improve our website, to personalise it based on your preferences, or to be able to show you advertising tailored to your searches, tastes and personal interests. You can accept all these cookies by clicking on the ACCEPT ALL button or configure them or refuse their use by clicking on the COOKIE CONFIGURATION section.
2. Some cookies are ours (we will call them our own cookies) and others belong to external companies that provide services for our website (we will call them third-party cookies: an example could be cookies from external providers such as Google). In this regard, it is important for you to know that some of these external suppliers may be located outside Spain.
Globally, not all countries have the same level of data protection, with some countries being safer than others (for example, the European Union is a safe environment for your data). Our policy is to use reliable providers who, whether or not they are located in the European Union, have adopted appropriate safeguards for the protection of your personal information. However, in the section entitled WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES ARE CURRENTLY USED ON OUR WEBSITE? you can consult the different privacy and data protection policies of each of the aforementioned external suppliers, in order to make an informed decision about whether or not to activate the third-party cookies used by our website.
3. Finally, please note that, depending on the period of time they remain active, cookies can be:
- Session cookies: they expire automatically when you end the session on your computer, smartphone, or tablet. They are usually used to retain the necessary information while a service is provided to you on a single occasion.
- Persistent Cookies: these remain stored on your computer, smartphone, or tablet for a certain period of time, which can vary from a few minutes to several years.
- Technical Cookies:
Technical cookies are strictly necessary for our website to work and for you to be able to browse our website. This type of cookies are those that, for example, allow us to identify you, give you access to certain restricted parts of the website if necessary, or remember different options or services already selected by you, such as your privacy preferences. For this reason, they are activated by default, and your authorisation is not required.
Through your browser settings, you can block or alert you to the presence of this type of cookies, although such blocking will affect the correct functioning of the different functionalities of our website.
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Analytics Cookies:
Analytics cookies allow us to study user browsing of our website in general (for example, which sections of the website are the most visited, which services are most used and whether they work correctly, etc.).
Based on statistical information about browsing on our website, we can improve both the functioning of the website itself and the different services it offers. Therefore, these cookies do not have an advertising purpose, but only serve to make our website work better, adapting it to our users in general. By activating them you will contribute to this continuous improvement.
You can enable or disable these cookies by checking the appropriate box, being disabled by default.
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Functionality and Personalisation Cookies:
Functionality cookies allow us to remember your preferences, in order to customise certain features and general options of our website for you, each time you access it (for example, the language in which the information is presented to you, the sections marked as favourites, your browser type, etc.).
Therefore, these types of cookies do not have an advertising purpose, but by activating them you will improve the functionality of the website (for example, by adapting to your type of browser) and customising it based on your preferences (for example, by presenting the information in the language you have chosen on previous occasions), which will contribute to the ease, usability, and comfort of our website during your browsing.
You can enable or disable these cookies by checking the appropriate box, being disabled by default.
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Advertising Cookies:
Advertising cookies allow us to manage the advertising spaces included on our website based on criteria such as the content shown or the frequency at which the advertisements are shown.
For example, if you have been shown the same ad several times on our website, and you have not shown a personal interest by clicking on it, it will not appear again. In short, by activating this type of cookie, the advertising displayed on our website will be more useful and diverse, and less repetitive.
Our website does not use cookies of this type.
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Behavioural Advertising Cookies:
Behavioural advertising cookies allow us to obtain information based on the observation of your web browsing habits and behaviours, in order to be able to show you advertising content that is better suited to your personal tastes and interests.
To make it easier for you to understand, we will give you a fictitious example: if your last web searches were related to literary thriller, we would show you advertising about thriller books.
Therefore, by activating this type of cookie, the advertising we show you on our website will not be generic, but will be oriented to your searches, tastes, and interests, and will therefore be tailored exclusively to you.
Our website does not use cookies of this type.
WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES ARE CURRENTLY USED ON OUR WEBSITE?
Below, we will inform you about all the types of cookies currently used on our website and the purpose of each one of them:
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Name of cookie |
Purpose |
When and how it is stored |
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wordpress_test_cookie |
In this cookie WordPress checks and saves if cookies are enabled in the browser. Session technique. Necessary. |
30 days |
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wordpress_[hash] |
Cookie restricted to the administration area (wp-admin). Not visible on the frontend even if you are logged in. Saves your |
30 days |
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wordpress_sec_[hash] |
Same as above. Required |
30 days |
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wordpress_logged_in_[hash] |
are while logged in and is used by WordPress for its interface. Session technique. Required. |
30 days |
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wp-settings-{time}-[UID] |
Saves your admin and even frontend settings. UID is your WordPress user ID. |
30 days |
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wp-settings-[UID] |
As above. Saves your admin and even frontend settings. UID is your user ID. |
30 days |
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wp-settings-{user_id} |
Used to maintain |
Duration 365 days |
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wporg_logged_in wporg_sec |
Used to keep user settings in wp-admin |
14 days if you select “Remember me” when logging in. |
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qtrans_front_language qtrans_admin_language qtrans_edit_language |
Used to maintain language settings. |
Duration 365 days |
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Moove_gpdr_popup |
Own. Used as a technical cookie to show or not show the cookie warning |
Duration 365 days |
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Sesión |
To record the user’s data entries on the website. Owner: University of Vigo |
When the user fills in a form |
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User authentication |
Identify you as a registered user and allow you to browse the different contents of the website. Owner: University of Vigo |
Only for the duration of the session. |
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Google Analytics |
We use cookies to compile statistics on the use of the website in order to know the level of recurrence of our visitors and the contents that are most interesting. In this way we can concentrate our efforts on improving the most visited areas and make it easier for the user to find what they are looking for the website may use the information from your visit to make evaluations and statistical calculations on anonymous data, as well as to ensure the continuity of service or to make improvements to their websites. For more details, see the following link for the privacy policy: http://www.google.com/intl/es/policies/privacy/ Owner: Google Inc |
When you access the site and accept the analytics cookies. |
WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH COOKIES?
When you access our website for the first time, you will be shown a window in which we inform you that cookies can be of various types:
- Technical cookies are necessary for our website to work, they do not require your authorisation and are the only ones we have activated by default.
- The other cookies are used to improve our website, to personalise it based on your preferences, or to be able to show you advertising tailored to your searches, tastes, and personal interests. You can accept all these cookies by clicking on the ACCEPT ALL button or configure them or refuse their use by clicking on the COOKIE CONFIGURATION section.
We would also like to inform you that, once you have activated any type of cookies, you have the possibility of deactivating them whenever you wish, by simply unchecking the corresponding box in the COOKIE CONFIGURATION section of our website. It will always be as easy for you to activate our own cookies as to deactivate them.
We would also like to remind you that, through your browser settings, you can block or alert you to the presence of cookies, although this blocking may affect the correct functioning of the different functionalities of our website such is the case of the necessary technical cookies.
Finally, if you activate third-party cookies (external companies that provide services for our website) and subsequently wish to deactivate them, you can do so in two ways: using the cookie deactivation tools of your browser or through the systems set up by these external providers.
To make it much easier for you, below we list a series of links to the guidelines for disabling cookies in commonly used browsers:
- Google Chrome.
- Mozilla Firefox.
- Internet Explorer.
- Safari.
- Safari for iOS (iPhone and iPad).
- Google Chrome for Android.
- Google Chrome for iPhone and iPad.
Likewise, we list the links to the systems enabled by each of the aforementioned external providers for the deactivation of their cookies:
Thank you very much for your collaboration
